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a7lyg · #10 (**permalink**) 03-05-2002, 09:39 AM

Hi Embles - sorry to hear of your venue problems - huge word of warning though........if this is how they are treating you now, can you trust them to host your wedding? My venue was fantastic with me, answered all my mails, let me take people up to see the place, everything...........until I asked for confirmation that they wouldn't increase their room rates (already increased by 35% since booking), asked about having a choice of food on the menu and about wine tasting. They said they allowed either beef or chicken (a choice ruins the ambience) and they couldn't confirm a price freeze "as they were getting so popular it was impossible"!! Icing on the cake was when they said they do not allow corkage (guest was going to supply wine as gift) and that we would need to buy wine from there, we asked when we could taste it, they gave us a date of an upcoming wedding fayre which we couldn't go to as we were away that weekend and said if we couldn't make that we couldn't taste the wine.............their cheapest bottle was £20!!!! Outcome??? WE CANCELLED THE WEDDING AND MOVED THE VENUE AND THE DATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was only at the end of February this year and I'm getting married in July (originally was 27th) so it was a huge thing for me to do, but I felt after this attitude change that I would choke if I had to sit there and smile and be around these pretentious people on my special day. I know it may be a bit drastic for some people, but all I'm saying is don't take any crap - there are a million venues out there who would jump at the chance to provide a great service - our new venue is completely out of this world! Good luck (and sorry for going on so long!!!)